Recently I was debugging a REST client class in Java. The service I was calling simply returned that the request was incomplete. Without access to the service logs and without more meaningful feedback from the service, I decided to create an echo script that would allow me to see exactly what my REST client was sending. For simplicity I used a LAMP installation on Ubuntu running inside virtual box on my Windows 7 development machine. I could have installed something like WAMPServer, but I prefer to leave my machine as clean as possible.......

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